The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-04-18
COKE CALLS THEM BACK.

Democratic party. lie advises them
to take down their sign and make a
non-partisan fight. He declines to at
tend the convention at Dallas called
by the saints who assembled at Austin,
Zone of whom onr Barney was which,
for the purposes set forth IN their call,
viz:
First, to set forth clearly and une-
quivocally the time-honored and car
dinal principles of the Democratic par
~ from Jefferson, its founder, down
to the present time, viz: opposition
to all forms Of sumptuary legislation.
Secondly, to set on foot well or
ganized and vigorous campaign
against the proposed prohibition
amendment to the constitution.
Senator Coke declines TO attend
this convention because it has been
called by presumptious, se.fconceited
fellows who have no more authority
to call Democratic convention or to
change the doctrines of the party re-
lating to prohibition than has their Re-
publican messmate, Gov. Arch Coch-
ran. Senator Coke advises the True
Blues not to try to whip their sober
brethren in with the Kissing serpent
which they are cheeky enough to hold
aloft as a party lash. They may pop
the tail off of their snake-aye, pop
him Off up to his eyes-and no sensi-
BILE person will be influenced or driven
by them. The Democrats of Texas,
according to their last authoritative
expression, are unanimously opposed
to the purposes and methods of the
True Blues. So declares Senator Coke.
A change of that expression can be
made only by convention of the par
ty regularly called by the executive
committee, majority of which are
prohibltionists So declares Senator
Coke. The last Democratic conven-
ton was unanimously opposed to
making this party question. If the
party were called together to-day it
would sit down on the True Blues like
million of bricks. The HERALD de-
clares this. The rank and file of the
Democrats of Texas love their party |
and their country much better than
mean whiskey, and they will see to it
that the latter is put out and that they
are not. But how can the T. BIS. turn
the stern of their piratical craft upon
us and head her for the back water
which Senator Coke prescribes in the
following;
knowing so well 'he high personal
and political character of the gentle
men in charge of this movement, and
their great intelligence and party fl
deity, / venture to express the hope
Il will say the belief that after calmly
celebrating over the question in COIL
vention at Dallas, they will formulate
a plan of campaign and inaugurate and
carry on canvass outside OF and
above the plane of party politics,
which shall not draw the Democratic
party into the contest, and leave every
citizen of Texas free, without refer
ence to his party relations or to crimi-
nation or recrimination in regard
thereto, to express through his vote
his honest convictions, on the merits
of the proposed constitutional amend
ment.
They have painted their banners,
their newspapers and all the
towns in Texas true blue "; they have
persisted in calling themselves the un-
adulterated Thomas jefferson; they
have gobbled up the raiment of the
Democratic party to serve the Dallas
convention in; in their desperation
they have called their brethren "dirty |
whelps," intolerant, vicious, religious
proscriptionists;;' cranks,"" fanatics"
" demagogues and women" "singing
sisters with musk in their hair" "par-
ticularly obnoxious because of intol-
erance of breed and brutality of con-
duct" "drunk OH fanaticism and n.y.
pocrisy,"" mercenary political wolves"
"with a cold-blooded rascality that
highwayman would have to cultivate
for years to make perfect" "aggres-
sive robbers" ain the fervor of their
hypocritical fanaticism and in the ar
rant demagogy ofthcir lying preten-
sions," exalting highway robbery"